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America’s Second-Richest Elected Official Is Acting Like He Wants to Be President – Wall Street Journal

Posted in Clown Car, Commodius Maximus, Deception, Dinky, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, Fat Bastard, Girlie man, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions, Wall Street Journal on April 20, 2025| 1 Comment »

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is scheduled to speak at an event in New Hampshire this month, fueling speculation about a potential 2028 presidential run. | Photo: Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/AP

Billionaire Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois is one of the top Democrats being watched as the party searches for a way out of the political wilderness

By John McCormick | The Wall Street Journal

CHICAGO—If JB Pritzker runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, he will be betting his party’s best prospect is a political punch-throwing heavyset billionaire who inherited massive wealth. While that sounds like President Trump, the two-term Illinois governor would be wagering on himself.

Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, has become one of the most-outspoken critics of Trump at a time Democrats are struggling to counter him. Wealth has long opened doors for Pritzker and there are signs he wants the next one to be into the Oval Office.

The 60-year-old is visiting New Hampshire, traditional home of the nation’s first presidential primary, to speak April 27 at a party fundraiser about what he sees as Trump’s authoritarianism and to call Democrats to action. The trip is likely to boost speculation that Pritzker, among those vetted by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign as a possible running mate, is interested in the 2028 nomination.

“There is no doubt that he is going to run,” said Chicagoan Bill Daley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s commerce secretary and President Barack Obama’s chief of staff. “The real question is whether he runs for re-election first or just runs for president.”

The governor, who declined an interview, has yet to say whether he will seek a third term. An announcement is expected in the next few months, with the March 2026 primary less than 11 months away.

Read more here.

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Pritzker and Johnson’s obsession with a racialized, sexualized, politicized school curriculum

Posted in Barrington Education Association, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Unions, Wirepoints on April 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

If only Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson would swap out their passion for DEI and transgenderism in Illinois classrooms with an obsession for literacy and numeracy, Illinois’ school system might dramatically improve its student outcomes.

That swap is urgently needed. Today, 50% of Illinois’ white students are NOT proficient in reading, according to the state’s own board of education. It’s worse for Hispanic students. 73% are NOT proficient.

For black students, a tragic 80% are NOT proficient. (The outcomes for math are even more tragic. 91% of black students are NOT proficient in math.)

Unfortunately, Pritzker and Johnson are leaning even more heavily into the woke agenda that most Americans, including many on the left, are increasingly rejecting.

Listen and watch them in their own words. First Pritzker in recent speeches at Equality Illinois galas:

“Working with Democrats in the General Assembly, we’ve made Illinois the most LGBTQ+ friendly state in the country…We brought inclusive LGBTQ+ curriculum into our schools so that all students now learn about the contributions of queer and transgender trailblazers…The State Board of Education is implementing gender-inclusive policies to ensure that our schools are welcoming and affirming.”

Nothing about students’ (lack of) ability to read or write.

Read more here.

 

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District 220 Board of Education meets this evening (3rd time this month?)

Posted in 220, Agendas, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, Fat Bastard, Girlie man, Illinois State Board of Elections, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Unions, Video Streaming, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on March 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The District 220 Board of Education meets for the 3rd time this month this evening at 6:00 PM at the District Administration Center, 515 W. Main Street. Normally the Board meets only twice a month and on Tuesdays.

Items on their agenda include:

  • FOIA Report
  • Personnel Report
  • Consideration to Approve a Resolution Authorizing the Honorable Dismissal Due to Reduction in Force of Groups 2 and 3 Teachers
  • Motion to Approve Finance Lease Agreement with Apple Financial Services, to Lease for 36 Months Technology Equipment at a Cost Not to Exceed $4,349,000.00, and Service Agreement With Apple Inc.
  • Consideration to Approve Finance Lease Agreement With Apple Financial Services, to Lease for 48 Months of Technology Equipment at a Cost Not to exceed $1,318,500.00, and a Service Agreement With Apple Inc.
  • Consideration to Approve Destruction of Verbatim Recordings
  • Consideration to Approve Non-BSEO Classified Staff Compensation and Benefits
  • Consideration to Approve the Adoption of Multi-Year, Performance-Based Contracts for Anthony Bradburn, Sunny Hill Elementary Principal; Kelly Haradon, Grove Elementary Principal; Cindy Ruesch, Rose Elementary Principal; Lisa West, North Barrington Elementary Principal; Paul Kirk, Roslyn Elementary Principal; Sarah Lager, Assistant Superintendent for Business Services; and Matt Fuller, Assistant Superintendent of Technology and Innovation
  • Consideration to Approve All Other Administrative Compensation and Benefits

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be live-streamed on the district YouTube channel.

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Illinois Restricts Government Contracts to DEI Supporters, Propping Up Divisive Industry

Posted in BOHICA, Commodius Maximus, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Fat Bastard, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes, The Chicago Way, The Washington Free Beacon on March 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Pritzker-backed law requires contract bidders to ‘prioritize their diversity initiatives if they hope to be competitive’

By Andrew Kerr | The Washington Freedom Beacon 

A little-known law in Illinois requires private companies to finance the DEI industry if they wish to do business with the state—giving a lifeline to an unpopular industry that currently finds itself on the ropes as major companies across the country ditch their DEI programs and President Donald Trump works to eradicate its influence across the federal government.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D.) signed a bill into law in 2021 that essentially requires businesses that seek to do business with the state of Illinois to bankroll the DEI industry. The law, which went into full effect in 2024, established a “commitment to diversity” factor in all state contracts that grades companies in large part on how much money they donate to DEI nonprofits and how much time their leaders personally volunteer to promote DEI in their communities. The higher the score companies receive on Pritzker’s DEI factor, the more likely they are to secure contracts from his administration.

In practice, Pritzker’s “commitment to diversity” factor forces private businesses to provide a financial lifeline to an otherwise dying DEI industry. The Pritzker administration scores out of 100 possible points based on their answers to seven DEI questions. One question requires companies to disclose how much they spend financing the DEI industry. Another question asks how much time a business’s leaders volunteer to promote DEI in their community. Other questions probe companies on what percentage of their staff are women and minorities and whether or not bidders have entered into agreements with any female- or minority-owned businesses.

Since going into full effect last year, Pritzker’s DEI factor has had a major impact on the way Illinois does business. Some 44 percent of state contracts awarded in fiscal year 2024 went to the companies that scored the highest on DEI factor, as opposed to their technical competency or price, according to a report published late last year by the Illinois Chief Procurement Office.

That includes the renewal of a $4 billion contract from the Illinois Department of Corrections in December 2023 to Wexford Health Sources, a company that has faced allegations of neglecting Illinois inmates under its care, including one obese patient who was discovered with cockroaches crawling out of his abdomen, NPR reported.

Wexford Health Sources won the contract over the bid of another health care company that offered the same medical services to the state for $3.5 billion. The Illinois Department of Corrections selected Wexford for the contract in part because of its “commitment to diversity,” WTTW reported.

Pritzker’s office did not return a request for comment.

Read more here.

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District 220 declared today to be “an e-learning day”

Posted in 220, Girlie man, Politics, School Districts on February 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“The National Weather Service is predicting significant snowfall for our area tomorrow with increasingly difficult travel conditions as the day progresses. To ensure the safety of students and staff, Barrington 220 will implement an e-learning day on Wednesday, February 12.

Students will have access to assignments by 9 a.m. through the usual communication method from their teachers (Seesaw, Schoology, etc.), and teachers will be available throughout the day to assist students with learning activities.

All after-school events, activities and athletic practices/games at all levels for Wednesday, February 12 are canceled. All aftercare programs will be closed as well.

We acknowledge the inconvenience closing school may cause and we appreciate your understanding of our need to put the safety of students and staff first.”

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Editorial: Illinois and Donald Trump are no match made in heaven. But they’ll have to work together.

Posted in Chicago Tribune, Commodius Maximus, Elections, Fat Bastard, Girlie man, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Scott Stantis on November 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Scott Stantis/For the Chicago Tribune

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Chicago Tribune

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker played the role of designated attack dog within the failed Kamala Harris presidential campaign and he played it with rhetorical flourish. At the Democratic National Convention, where (unlike most others) he used almost his entire speech to criticize Trump, Pritzker called Trump “weird,” “dangerous” and said he was “rich in only one thing: stupidity.”

“He’s a racist, sexist, misogynistic narcissist who wants to use the levers of power to enrich himself and punish anyone who dares speak a word against him,” Pritzker said of Trump on June 9, while President Joe Biden still was the presumptive Democratic nominee.

And that’s among the more polite things the Illinois governor said about the man the nation just elected for a second term as president. He also has described him as “a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar.”

Trump, of course, has responded in kind. To wit, also in June, on Truth Social: “Sloppy JB Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois,” Trump wrote.

Now an inconvenient truth. Trump is to be the next president of the United States with a mandate from the American people and more likely than not sufficient majorities to push through whatever he wishes to enact. Many of those policies will have profound impacts on the people of Illinois.

Now another inconvenient truth. Trump did very well this past election in Illinois.

When all is buttoned up, Harris will almost certainly have beaten Trump in the Land of Lincoln by less than 9 points.

In 2020, by contrast, Biden won Illinois with 58% of the vote to Trump’s 41%, a 17-point margin. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Illinois with 56% to Trump’s 39%, also roughly a 17-point margin. Illinois remains a reliably blue state, but with a margin now only in the single digits. Trump sliced away nearly half of the prior Democratic presidential candidate’s advantage even though we, like many others, stated many times that his personal behavior and convictions meant that he was no longer qualified to be president.

Read more here.

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Pritzker’s new budgets forecast $3 billion to $5 billion deficits, make property tax relief from millionaire-tax ballot referendum unlikely

Posted in 220, BOHICA, Clown Car, Commodius Maximus, Deception, Elections, Ethics, Fat Bastard, Girlie man, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, News Media, OP/Ed, Organizations, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, The Chicago Way, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on November 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Photo courtesy Maria for 52 Facebook page

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

On Tuesday’s Nov. 5 ballot there’s a nonbinding referendum that asks voters if they want the state to tax millionaires a 3% surcharge on the money they make over and above $1 million. In exchange for agreeing to target millionaires, Illinois voters can expect property tax relief, the referendum reads, though the referendum is noncommittal as to how much relief, if any, it would actually provide. The state says the 3% surcharge on millionaires will give the government about $4.5 billion in new revenues.

For the state to provide property tax relief, however, it would have to actually take some of those new tax revenues and commit them to property tax relief. And that’s where Illinoisans should be highly skeptical, we warned a week ago: “Given the upcoming budget deficits…there won’t be any money left over for tax relief.”

Sure enough, it only took a few days for Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his budget office to announce that billion-dollar deficits are on their way.

Pritzker’s team on Friday released its five-year budget forecast and said it expects a whopping $3.2 billion deficit for next fiscal year (2025-2026), a $4.3 billion deficit for the following year, and $5 billion-plus deficits in each of the years 2028 through 2030.

Those deficits effectively swallow up the revenues of the “millionaire’s tax,” leaving little to nothing for property tax relief. The administration would have to raise income taxes by another $4 billion-plus to provide both property tax relief and cover the deficits. How far down into middle-income brackets would Illinois politicians have to hike income tax rates to get that all money?

Not only do the above deficits make the referendum a farce, but they are a major contradiction to the praise the governor has heaped on himself for managing the state’s finances over the last few years, in particular during COVID.

How can the wheels be coming off the bus now, when the national economy is humming along, interest rates are going down, and the governor has managed to “balance budgets”?

There are two big answers to that question. The first one is that Pritzker never actually fixed any problems. No spending reforms. No pension reforms. No tax relief. None.

The second answer to that question is that the governor and his Democratic supermajority used the windfall revenues from the covid bailouts to pay down the state’s bills, and then poured the rest into new spending (more on that below).

The covid bailouts were massive. More than $70 billion was given in loans and grants to businesses. Illinoisans got $30 billion in stimulus checks. State and local governments received more than $30 billion. Billions more went to health care and a host of other programs. All that money also had the knock-on effect of supercharging the state’s tax revenues.

It was all that money, and not Pritzker’s efforts, that covered up all of Illinois’ structural spending problems. Now the covid money is gone and reality is back.

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Read more here.

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Illinois House races to watch, where suburban challenges could affect Springfield power balance

Posted in Elections, Girlie man, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Resident Spotlights, Springfield on October 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills (left) and Democratic nominee Maria Peterson. | Sun-Times file and provided

Democrats are spending big to hold onto one northwest suburban seat and potentially flip another, while Republicans will need to protect a south suburban seat to have any chance of chipping away at Democratic super-majorities in Springfield.

By  Mitchell Armentrout | Chicago Sun*Times

Republicans hope to chip away next month at super-majorities in the Illinois General Assembly held by Democrats, who are aiming to strengthen their iron grip on the state Capitol.

Leaders on both sides of the aisle in the Illinois House say they can flip five or more seats in the chamber, where Dems hold a commanding 78-40 edge.

Here’s a look at three Chicago area races in the Nov. 5 election that could tip the balance — or imbalance — of power in Springfield.

52nd District: McLaughlin vs. Peterson

State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills, faces a deep-pocketed challenge from Democratic nominee Maria Peterson as he vies for a third term at the helm of this far northwest suburban district that stretches north to Wauconda.

McLaughlin, the former village president of Barrington Hills who owns an investment advisory firm, had about $100,000 in his campaign account at the end of June and raised about $73,000 over the summer. That included support from the Realtor Political Action Committee, the Chicagoland Operators Joint Labor-Management PAC and the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police.

Peterson, of North Barrington, is a retired attorney for the U.S. Dept. of Labor who lost her 2022 state Senate run against former Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie by fewer than 400 votes. She’s raised more than $560,000 for this campaign, much of that coming from funds controlled by Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside.

McLaughlin says he approaches issues as a businessman instead of as a politician, pointing to bipartisan legislation he championed to lower construction costs on engineering projects.

He won reelection by almost five points in 2022 in the once solidly Republican district, which went to President Joe Biden in 2020.

McLaughlin slammed suburban Democrats for campaigning as moderates and then “going to Springfield and voting like hair-on-fire California progressives.” He told the Sun-Times he thinks Peterson “would fit that same mold.”

Read more here.

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Gov. Pritzker polls last among swing-state Democrats as Harris VP choice

Posted in Commodius Maximus, Deception, Elections, Ethics, Girlie man, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Taxes, The Hill, Unions, Wirepoints on July 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Vice President Kamala Harris participates in a rally to support Illinois Democrats with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on the campus of University of Illinois Chicago in 2022. | Scott Olson/Getty Images-file

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

In what’s surely a painful, if only temporary, blow to his political ambitions, polls in the five major swing states show Gov. J.B. Pritzker ranks last as a VP choice for Kamala Harris.

Emerson College Polling/The Hill surveyed likely voters in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan on July 22-23, with one of the questions being who should be considered for VP.

First, look at what registered Democrats had to say. In Arizona, Pritzker got just 0.2% of the vote. In Pennsylvania it was only slightly higher, at 0.5%. In Michigan, 1.1% and in Georgia, 2.4%.

Even in Wisconsin, where Gov. Pritzker has a vacation home and has spent millions on political campaigns, he still finished last with just 4.1% of the votes.

The polling outcome is brutal for the Illinois governor.

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When polling results from all registered voters are analyzed, Pritzker fared about the same, though he didn’t finish last in Wisconsin, where North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper did slightly worse. The table for all registered voters in the five swing states is in the appendix.

Of course, national figures like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders performed well based on name recognition alone. And swing state politicians took the top spots in their home states. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly scored highest in Arizona, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Sharpiro pulled 57% of Pennsylvania Dems, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was most popular in Michigan.

But a lack of home-field advantage doesn’t explain why Pritzker still ended up last in all five states.

Read more here.

Related: “Kamala Harris campaign considering J.B. Pritzker for vice presidential candidate”

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Gov. Pritzker tells CNN that jobs are coming back to Illinois. The number of people employed in Illinois under his watch says the opposite.

Posted in Deception, Elections, Ethics, Girlie man, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on July 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and Nick Binotti | Wirepoints

Gov. J.B. Pritzker told America last week on a CNN interview that President Biden has “…done a lot to revive American manufacturing. In my state, you know, we’ve seen jobs and companies coming back to the United States and to Illinois.”

But the governor’s comment about Illinois is simply not true – not when you measure it by the number of Illinoisans who are actually employed. Fewer people are on Illinois’ employment rolls today than when Pritzker took office.*

Back then, in 2019, Illinois employed 6,273,060 workers, according to the BLS’ Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program. Based on the latest numbers, only 6,193,823 are employed today. That’s a loss of 80,000 working Illinoisans during the governor’s tenure.

It’s also the nation’s 3rd-worst performance over that 5-year span. Only California and New York suffered bigger losses in employment than Illinois did.

In contrast, many states’ employment rolls boomed over the same period. The number of Texans employed is up by over 1.3 million people since January 2019. Florida employment is up by over 900,000.

And states like Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia have all added more than 200,000 to their employment rolls. Below, we show the nation’s top ten leaders in employment creation, as well as the bottom ten. (An appendix with data on all 50 states, for both total employment and manufacturing employment.

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Illinois manufacturing employment is down as well. Since January 2019, Illinois manufacturing employment is down 12,800, the nation’s 7th-worst performance, according to the BLS’ Current Employment Statistics Program.

And as with overall employment, Texas and Florida crushed the rest of the nation in manufacturing employment. Since 2019, Texas has increased its employment by 73,600, Florida by 44,100. Georgia is up 29,000. Again, we show below the top and bottom 10 performers nationally.

Read more here.

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